Tomorrow we have our concert at 1:00pm.

Happy Halloween. Today we did the Mexican Hat dance.

 Today we got ready for the fiesta 

Today we finished our typing in the lab. 

Today we notice condensation around the mountain.  

Masks

Our brochures

Today we finished up our brochures about Mexico. We will display them at our fiesta. Our topics are physical features, climate, natural resources, economy, culture, and another we can choose, possibly history or animals. We are excited for our fiesta!

Class rules

We made class rules and we will follow these every day ! 

Pop quiz

Today October 7 2014 was are pop quiz on the water cycle and we had fun I hope we can do it again !

Penny drop experiment

Today we did an experiment in which we used eye droppers to see how many water drops would fit on the face of a penny. We decided the average amount was 16-22 droplets. It was fun!

We also did our spelling test today.

Have a nice weekend!

Penny drop experiment

Today we did an experiment in which we used eye droppers to see how many water drops would fit on the face of a penny. We decided the average amount was 16-22 droplets. It was fun!

We also did our spelling test today.

Have a nice weekend!

Mexican masks

Today we made masks as part of our study of Mexican culture. We laid wet plaster strips on our faces so they would fit the person it was made for. It felt weird!

  It's a boy! Mrs. Cosel had a doctors appointment and found out that her baby is a boy. Congratulations, Mrs. Cosel!

Water Cycle Readers Theater

  Today we performed a Readers Theater. It was about the process of the water cycle.

The Science Experiment

On Friday,we performed a science experiment in which we tested how water reacted on different surfaces. Jessica Oakley, Dahlia's mom helped us.

    The surfaces we tested were wax paper, paper towel, foil, and white paper.

    On the white paper and paper towel, the water absorbed and spread out.

    On the wax paper and foil, the water stayed in droplets and didn't effect the surface.

The Publishing Party By Dahlia Logan

Today we had our first publishing party. We walked around the classroom and read each other's and left comments with the markers we brought with us. Later on second graders came in and we read to the second grade reader buddy. Then they told us a story about what happened to them.

We

We are doing the water cycle.

Doing the jobs

We are doing the jobs ms cosel assigned us jobs.

Maps of Mexico by Colby Sweet

Today we got to do our maps and you had to glue on the mountains, plateaus, forest, deserts and draw in the water. My favorite part was making the mountains out of macaroni.

Math MCAS

We all our having the math MCAS soon. We have been using special packets to practice. We are nervous and exited. Some questions are for geometry or multiplication or division.

The all school

Today we had a all school and Mr. Kalosh talked about the chess and the chess trophy that you can win. The 1st graders also did a proformince.  Mr dingman has a crown for winning the chess against mr. Kalosh and him.

Ella P. In our class won the high five drawing she got a whiffle ball bat and Angel found a baby inch worm. 

We are continuing to study imagration

This week we are studying immagtion we have learned about Elis Island. Today we wrote letters for random people. The letters are about how it was to arive in New York for an immigrant. Today we also tea stained our letters to make them look old fasion!! They looked amazing after we stained them but some of them ripped when they got too wet. But that just made them a little bit more old fasion!! After that we will crumple them up to make look more old fasion!!!!

ELA MCAS

Next week we have ELA MCAS we are taking all of our time to practice for the ELA MCAS. But we're still nervous. This is a picture of ms. Cosel eating her MCAS. We're getting all ready and we're even grading other people's MCAS to make sure we do our best!!!!!!

We are studying imagination

We are studying immigration for our USA unit. We have learned lots of things about immigration so far some people that immagrat may never see their family again. Some people even have to learn a new language and people move for different reasons. Some different reasons are religen family and jobs. 

The phantom tollbooth

We are reading the phantom tollbooth by, Norton Juster. The main character is named Milo, he is very bored . He goes to another land where he learns alot of valuable information. He meets characters like the watch dog, short shrift, and others! Milo learns that he's been missing out on a lot of fun.

By Paige and Savanah

MCAS

We are finaly done with MCAS for the week. Next week we still have our reading  MCAS. We learned about energy and we answered questions about energy. We have two full days of MCAS but then we will be done for the year. We still have Math MCAS to do this year.

Literacy night

This Is our class shield we have all of our faces on it and we even made our body's. We made the knight hold a pencil and not a real sword. Also at the night of literacy the fourth grade teachers held a readers theater it was so fun there was so many people there and there was six authors I loved it!!

Literary essays

Today we worked on literary essays for FOX we have a thesis and 3reasons.

We've grown ideas, we've written  a thesis, we are working on our draft essays.

The three main characters in FOX are dog, magpie the bird, and fox.

We have to have our literary essays done by Friday!

Valentines day by Emma Adelson and Nick Pectal

This week it's valentines day!  Everyone is very exited about the skiing trip to butternut in Great Barington. It is a fun and exiting day for everyone in the school. Some of the teachers are even going!  Hope you love valentines day like we do.

 

Winter events!!!!!!! By Emma Adelson and Nick Pectal

On march 12th we will be going to butternut for either snowboarding skiing or tubing, and we will be going to butternut for 5 hours the instructors are going to be are principal and one of are fourth grade teachers for  skiing and snowboarding.

Martin Luther King Day By Emma Adelson and Nicholas Pectal

Martin Luther king day is where we celebrate a man who went through hard times. For example he had two friends who where white and one day he went to his friends house to go play but his mom came out instead of his two friends and his mom said you are no longer to play with my boys because you are colored. Martin and his friends were never to see each other again. When he was older he tried and tried to prevent that from ever happening to anybody else .  Then finally the day came he was able to make sure that black people got treated the same way as white people. That was the day of the "I have a dream" speech. Still now we celebrate what he did to the country. Everyone was pleased except the people that didn't like what he did. Then one day, one of the people that did not like him decided to shoot him. He died that day. Most everyone was very sad that day. His family, his friends and everyone that was standing with him. It was a sad day in history but people still remember his big words and what he did in this community. 

I hope everyone will remember what he did for every black person. And I hope everyone will celebrate Martin Luther king jr. Day 

It was the first grade, kindergarden and pre-k concert this week.

The first grade kindergarden and pre-k had a concert and rehursal this week.                  

They were  cute and great.                                                                                                                              

Ms. Bickford and MS. Muran  tought all of the kids the songs so thank you to them. It was a great concert and I hope they loved it as much as we did. Some of the songs I bet people remembered from  when we were little. I hope you loved the concert. 

By Emma adelson and nick pectal

 

Ask questions and make predictions

We are reading noim.                                             

One of the fourth grade teachers was in the war and he had his class do a presentation and one of my friends did it.